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AMRI families raise arrest question
As many as 68 families who lost relatives in the AMRI Dhakuria fire met at the Nandan complex this morning to raise safety awareness but some were unable to mask the anger at police’s inability to arrest anyone on duty that night. ...  | Read.. 
 
NREGS must match states’ wages, says SC
Updated on Monday at 18:35 hrs (IST)
The Supreme Court today asked the Centre to consider bringing the wage under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on par with minimum wages prevailing in di ...  | Read.. 
 
EU sets July date for ban on Iranian crude
Updated on Monday at 19:16 hrs (IST)
Oil prices rose to near $111 a barrel on Monday after the European Union foreign ministers agreed to ban imports of Iranian oil from the start of July, eliciting further threa ...  | Read.. 
 
Key accused of NRHM scam commits suicide
Updated on Monday at 15:13 hrs (IST)
A key accused in the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam, Sunil Verma, who was named in the CBI case along with former UP minister Babu Singh Kushwaha ...  | Read.. 
 
Mumbai civic body pulled up for acting like a court
Updated on Monday at 18:45 hrs (IST)
Rapping the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) for discrimination, the Bombay High Court today said the civic body cannot assume quasi-judicial authority and act like a ...  | Read.. 
 
Serena Williams out of Australian Open
Updated on Monday at 14:17 hrs (IST)
Russia’s Ekaterina Makarova etched her name into Australian Open folklore on Monday by stunning Serena Williams 6-2 6-3 in their fourth-round match to end the American ...  | Read.. 
 
‘Wisdom’ behind fire cell let-off
Police have come up with an unusual excuse for not acting against fire officials who repeatedly used their “discretion” to give AMRI Dhakuria more time to plug ...  | Read.. 
 
Car ferrying Ambani caught in no-drive hill
Maharashtra police have seized a car in which Nita Ambani was travelling and registered a case against the driver on the charge of flouting the law in the hill resort of ...  | Read.. 
 
Scorned lady saves Newt
Newt Gingrich last night proved the truth in the saying that “behind every successful man is a woman”. But it was the wrong woman who propelled him to unexpected vi ...  | Read.. 
 
Cornered mukhiya pleads innocence
Four persons, including the mukhiya of Bargarh panchayat Ramdas Minz, have been detained in connection with the landmine blast that killed 13 security personnel yesterday ...  | Read.. 
 
Munda reinforces trap theory
Chief minister Arjun Munda today said Maoists used the pretext of an agitation by villagers to lure unsuspecting policemen into a trap that left 13 dead in Garhwa yesterday, ...  | Read.. 
 
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